Acting Quotes · Page 258

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting…

— Hal Holbrook

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of…

— Sheryl Sandberg

When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had…

— Himesh Reshammiya

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

— Helen Mirren

I'm trying to get more into television and film. I know, like, a million models and rappers have said that, but I…

— Killer Mike

I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I…

— Jacob Artist

“You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it…

— Bruce Robinson

Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started…

— Dan Amboyer

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall…

— Jessica Chastain

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.…

— Jonah Hill

There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. And that's the thing: a…

— Leah Remini

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute…

— Lou Doillon

Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm…

— Benn Northover

Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your…

— Josh Keaton

I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see…

— Patton Oswalt

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing…

— Jessie Mueller

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time…

— Freddie Highmore

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone…

— Mahesh Babu

Acting in movies? Why not. It would be a new adventure for me. This is always something I've liked to do, act…

— Jan Blachowicz

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved…

— Alice Braga

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in…

— Jaime Pressly

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

— Shari Sebbens

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively…

— Evangeline Lilly

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always…

— Luke Evans

When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on…

— Pratik Gandhi

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my…

— Luise Rainer

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm having so much fun building my makeup business, and it's a huge responsibility. It's not a side job. The more it…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would…

— Alec Baldwin

I think it's a falsehood to think you can have some kind of plan. Acting isn't like that, it's more vocational, I…

— Shaun Evans

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

— Jostein Gaarder

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature…

— Bokeem Woodbine

My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for…

— Joseph Cotten

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes…

— Monica Keena

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think…

— Flea

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire…

— Mike White

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another…

— Samuel West

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and un-pressurized time…

— Nathan Fillion

It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works…

— Carole Bouquet